a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906)

Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina.

Born

1906

March 19

Died

1962

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1900s

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1906 Born
1962 Died

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1205 Latin forces under Henry of Flanders defeat a Nicaean army under Constantine Laskaris in the Battle of Adramyttion.
1227 Election of Ugolino di Conti as Pope Gregory IX following the death of Pope Honorius III.
1277 The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
1279 A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.

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The world in 1906

When Adolf arrived

april 14 The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
april 18 The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
april 22 The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
april 27 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

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Andy Reid 1958– American football player and coach Anna Held 1872– Polish singer (died 1918) David Livingstone 1813–1873 Scottish missionary and explorer (died 1873) Earl Warren 1891–1974 American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1891) Edith Nourse Rogers 1881– American social worker and politician (died 1960) Jean Astruc 1684–1766 French physician and scholar (died 1766) Josef Albers 1888–1976 German-American painter and educator (died 1976) Patrick McGoohan 1928–2009 Irish-American actor, director, and producer (born 1928) Thomas McKean 1734–1817 American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1734)

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Bea Benaderet 1906–1968 Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968) Buddhadasa 1906– Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993) Chandra Shekhar Azad 1906–1931 Indian revolutionary (born 1906) Clifford Odets 1906–1963 American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906) Constance Stokes 1906–1991 Australian painter (died 1991) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 German pastor and theologian (born 1906) Eleanor Hibbert 1906– English author (died 1993) Endre Kabos 1906– Hungarian fencer (died 1944) Faisal of Saudi Arabia 1906–1975 Saudi Arabian king (died 1975)

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